"We ...... We sank the Hood? Ruttejens watched the Hood quickly disappear into the sea, and said to Lindemann in disbelief.

"I think so...... Mr. Commander ......: "Lindemann could not believe that he had sunk this huge ship with a displacement of more than 48,000 tons after only five rounds of fire.

Not to mention these two people, the other officers and soldiers on both sides couldn't believe the scene in front of them, and the two sides, which were originally in a fierce exchange of fire, actually came to a temporary standstill, until the commanders of the various gun emplacements gave the order to continue fighting, and the rumbling of artillery resounded on the battlefield.

In fact, it is not to blame that the German commander would react in this way, but the Hood is a nightmare that has plagued the German Navy for many years - if nothing else, Raeder likes to use the Hood to "intimidate" naval officers and sailors.

On one occasion, for example, the Reich's official newspaper, the Deutsche Herdgeung, asked Raeder at a public event: "General Raeder, now that our Imperial Navy has so many powerful warships—especially world-class warships like the Bismarck-class battleships and the Leon-Andrés-class aircraft carriers, is it possible to say that the British Royal Navy is no longer a threat to us?" ”

In fact, in such a public event, all questions from the media and answers from those asked are planned by the Ministry of Propaganda in order to increase the public's confidence in the military.

So Raeder knew early on that he would be asked such a question, and Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda of the Reich, had already handed over the official answer to Raeder, and even specially told him to answer according to the draft, and said to him, "This answer was told by the Führer." "That's the case.

But when he arrived at the scene, Raeder still did not buy the accounts of Leon and Goebbels, and answered the reporter directly, saying: "Not such a gentleman, although we have such excellent battleships as 'Bismarck' and 'Tirpitz', but the British Royal Navy also has the 'Admiral Hood' battlecruiser - it is a big problem for us!" ”

There is no doubt that Raeder's words shocked everyone present, and even Lyon, who was far away in Berlin, was very angry, covering his head and saying again and again, "Raeder is a big problem".

But it is enough to see how much the battleship "Admiral Hood" occupies in the minds of the German navy.

But the sinking of the Hood was not the end of this naval battle, on the contrary, the sinking of the Hood was only the beginning.

"Avenge the Hood!" It wasn't just someone who shouted on the radio channel, but this sentence instantly aroused the anger of everyone in the British Royal Navy, from Baron Tovey to ordinary soldiers.

"All turn!" Baron Tovey's eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth and ordered the whole fleet, "For Vice Admiral Holland!" For Major General Warkwick! For every soldier on the Hood! Charge at the enemy ship! ”

All the warships did not hesitate after receiving this order, turned quickly, and then launched a charge towards the German ship more than 10,000 meters away.

In the era of sail battleships, in order to better kill and damage enemy warships, the captains of battleships generally asked their warships to charge with their heads at the enemy ships and hit the enemy warships with ramming angles, which was called the "T-shaped tactic".

However, this tactic was abandoned by the navies of various countries after the artillery was equipped with warships, because the guns were mounted on both sides of the warship, and if the bow was aimed at the enemy ship, most of the guns would not be able to fire.

Therefore, after the naval battle entered the era of artillery battleships, naval commanders changed to require the side to face the enemy to maximize firepower, and at the same time let the enemy warship aim at themselves with the bow as much as possible, this tactic is called "T-shaped cross-head tactic", and it is also generally known as grabbing the "T" head.

The most incisive play of the "T-shaped cross-head" tactic was the Battle of Tsushima that broke out in the Tsushima Strait on May 27-28, 1905.

And now, the British home fleet, under the order of Baron Tovey, took the initiative to abandon the battle of the same voyage (the two fleets were on parallel course), and turned to the German fleet to charge, putting themselves in a T inferior position and losing the firing angle of the stern turret!

However, although this order may seem absurd, it actually makes a lot of sense. You can see one or two from the lineup of the fleets of both sides.

First of all, the German fleet, the High Seas Fleet had 4 capital ships, all of which were heavily armored battleships with 18 406mm naval guns of the "Bismarck" class with the largest caliber.

The British Home Fleet only had three capital ships, and two of the three were weakly armored battlecruisers (the Prestige battlecruiser and the counterattack battlecruiser), and the British fleet's largest caliber main guns were the 12 381mm guns of the two ships of the Prestige class, and the new battleship King George V had 10 guns, but they were all 356mm - whether it was firepower or protection, the British fleet was not as good as the German fleet.

Under such circumstances, if Baron Tovey continues to choose to fight the same battle with the High Seas Fleet, there is no doubt that the other three ships will end up in the same fate as the Hood!

Therefore, in order to fight for the only chance he had, Baron Tovey decisively chose to give up T You, turn to accelerate and rush towards the German fleet, so as to reduce the bomb area, and secondly, he could wait until the distance between the two sides could easily penetrate each other before turning, and then use his advantage of fast rate of fire to hit the German fleet hard!

And how could Lütjans, as one of the commanders in command of the German Navy, not see what Baron Tovey was thinking?

He quickly recovered from the ecstasy of sinking the Hood and ordered: "All ships concentrate their fire on the enemy flagship!" Don't let them rush to us! ”

After receiving the order, the battleships turned their guns at the battleship George V, which was flying the flagship flag, and launched a fierce attack on Baron Tovey.

But I don't know whether the Hood ran out of the luck of the German Navy with one shot of the Hood, or because the British fleet rushed too fast, the shells of the ships rained down on the British King George V, but few hits, and a small number of the shells that hit either jumped off the main armor of the George V, or were blocked by the main armor and shattered.

Soon, the distance between the two fleets was drastically reduced from 19,000 meters to less than 11,000 meters!

At this distance, the 356mm guns of the battleship George V were able to penetrate the armor belt of the Bismarck, but Baron Tovey did not seem to be satisfied, and he still ordered the fleet to move on, determined to engage the German fleet.

Faced with the angry mad dog British fleet, Lütjans was also furious.

"The fleet turns! Knock the British into the sea! ”